Energy-smart technology makes managing a Sausalito floating home easy, even from 6,000 miles away.

An exhibit of contemporary Finnish art, hosted in the midcentury modernist’s only home in France, signals a tentative return to...

Anchored in a small canal, this floating house is all about space and light.

Craving the conveniences of city life, a couple sidle over to Seattle from the countryside without compromising their love of the...

When the pandemic drove Janne Tuunanen to return to Jyväskylä, he discovered a newfound appreciation for its wealth of buildings...

Hint: It’s not because he loves fresh-cut flowers.

From the deck of this waterfront house, the scenery is abuzz with Northern California wildlife–but there's not a utility bill in...

Alvar Aalto, one of Finland’s greatest architects, made modernist masterpieces with a human touch.

A green roof cools your home in the summer, insulates in the winter, and has far-reaching benefits for the community, but keeping...

Toronto designers Peter Fleming and Debbie Adams found a polluted lot and a run-down building—and saw fertile ground for a...

Ancient and emerging technologies promise sustainable answers to water shortages.

A new Vitra Design Museum exhibit re-examines Finnish designer Alvar Aalto's influences and creations.

Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a...

At the end of 2000, Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir, Icelandic natives and partners in the Santa Monica–based...

Alternative materials help a house in California’s wine country tread lightly on the land.